First Video Game You Remember Playing?

[Apostolos]

hmm first game i remember playing was the first legend of zelda on the nintendo lol

[CapnJack]

Space Invaders on an Atari 2600.

Yeah, that's how old I am lol. I can barely recall it, though. I must've been like, three or four years old. I was at my cousin's house. I can't remember why it was there but there was the Atari in the dining room and everyone was alternating between playing Space Invaders and some side-scrolling racing game.

Incidentally, that very same Atari+cart is in my cupboard.

Same here. When my parents got an Atari 2600 in '83 or '84, Space Invaders and Pac-man were the first games I ever remember playing. Our game collection grew to about 30 or 40 games and we still have it. It's just dusty and the connections for the controllers are sensitive and don't work well.

The first arcade table I can recall playing is a Pac-man table top stand at a Pizza Hut restaurant. I mean, back when there were Pizza Hut restaurants.

First hand held game was either a really simple football game with red lights as the players, or this mini Pac-man game.

[Tasuke]

perhaps SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 on my Aunt's NES, IIRC.

first VGC i actually owned, however was a first-edition SEGA GENESIS, and first game(s) played in my own home
were the original 1989/1990 pack-in ALTERED BEAST and the single additional game my folks got me, -all for X-Mas of '89- THUNDER FORCE II...

[RunnerNoah]

Super Mario on the NES.

I remember my cousins would put a chancleta in the NES to hold the cartridge down. It's funny when I think of it now, but when I was child, I didn't pay attention to it. I only cared about playing video games and beating my cousins in the game.

[TattooArtist]

Final Fantasy III ⚚

[bluebird1789]

This must be almost 25 years ago; Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was so magical for a 5-year old. And I still own the game and a working NES console.

[Immoral]

Very hard to remember what game I played first... A toss up between Castlevania II: Simon's Quest and The Legend of Zelda for NES I think. My father was trying to teach me how to play.

[Tasuke]

like i mentioned above, my first console was a SEGA GENESIS in X-Mas 1989. sometime in 1990, my mom got me a nicely decked-out NINTENDO NES setup from a newspaper ad,
console, controllers, NES ADVANTAGE arcade-type stick, ZAPPER light gun, GAME GENIE and a big ol' stack of carts... all for $80.00.

X-Mas of 1991, i got an NINTENDO SNES, and the GENESIS/NES/SNES was my good-time-trio up until about 1995, when mom got me a SEGA SATURN, 1996, when i got a NINTENDO N64,
and 1996/1997, when we were compelled to buy into the SONY PS1, largely on the strength of FINAL FANTASY VII.

PS2/GCN/Wii/PS3/Wii U/PS4, me and my family have hardly missed out on a major VGC in 25 years now. i got myself a SEGA CD for $5.00 at a yard sale back around 2001ish,
found a complete SEGA DREAMCAST at a thrift for $40.00 back around 2009, and found a PANASONIC FZ-1 3DO at a thrift for around $3.00 or so just last year 2016,
though i'm gonna need a controller and a game for it someday.

in sum, while my folks were never Wealthy, they did rather spoil me, keeping me healthily in the VGs since i was nine years old, and never once requiring me
to trade any of it in to get the latest and greatest. as a long time gamer since pre-teen childhood, i do consider myself to have been singularly lucky in that regard,
as today i can pop in and play at will any of the wide variety of the exact same games that i literally grew up with...

[Vincent Valentine]

It's an emotional memory for me, but the first gaming experience I had was with the Sega Master System. I believe it came with Hang-On and a light-gun game called "Safari" built into it. I'm a lover of the RPG genre, and one of the first roleplaying games I played was Phantasy Star, which was nightmarishly hard for a very young child to comprehend. My Grandfather was solely responsible for introducing me to many of these gaming devices, and I spent countless hours there at my Grandparent's house playing away without a care in the world.

Then came the NES, then the Mega Drive/Genesis, then the Super Nintendo – Finally, the Sony PlayStation, and that was the last time I got to spend with the person who'd made all these fond memories possible. It just didn't particularly feel the same after that. To make matters worse, when my Grandmother passed away some years later, familial greed saw their house put on the market for sale and all of the retro gaming consoles and games tucked away within were simply discarded during that clinical process.

In one fell vulture's swoop, the entire scope of my childhood memories and my early gaming experiences were gone, never to return.

I still game, and I still play retro games, but it isn't quite the same as it was during the heyday of these old-school consoles and all the precious memories they held for me. I also remember when you bought a game cartridge and that was it – You didn't need net access to play it or update it, and you didn't need to pay the asking price twice over just to unlock additional content. In many ways, I have fonder memories of gaming then than I ever will in relation to the present day.

[InvaderBen]

Yoshi's Island for SNES. Good old times.

[bakazable]

i loved digimon rumble arena on the ps1 xD and star gladiator, were awesome.

[Anji.]

I love it! Such a variety shows how diverse in age this group is. I will have to date myself here and show how old I am by telling everyone my fist game. Wheel of Fortune on a gigantic Macintosh PC. The game came on one of those giant black disks that was like 3inch by 3inch. And then we had an Atari and I would play Asteroids and PAC-Man like it was going out of style lol.

[anc_voin]

the first game was in gba. its harvest moon friend of mineral town. i played that game since i was 9 y.o . and yeahh now im still playing hm

[Kaleohano]

Ape Escape (PS1)

[Zainox]

First game I remember was Donald in Maui Mallard for the SNES. It was this really whack game where you played as Donald Duck. He would transform into a ninja and you would beat down a bunch of other ninjas.

[Blackmagezero]

My first system was a NES and the first game I remember playing was super Mario 3. But the first system I ever bought with my own money was a Nintendo 64 and the first game I bought was Pokemon stadium.

[Digimon_Sommelier]

Pokémon Yellow on a Pikachu-inspired Gameboy.

[Blackmagezero]

Pokémon Yellow on a Pikachu-inspired Gameboy.

I had one of those, I wish I still did but my sister broke it when we were little. (It was an accident)

[Kumagawa]

My first game I ever played was motherflipping Krazy Racers, which is a bargain bin Mario Kart ripoff featuring obscure konami characters. It's lame as heck and once I got so angry that I couldn't win the final race tour that I kept bashing my GBA on the bathroom sink repeatedly until it shattered and plastic went everywhere and later my dad stepped into one of the pink shards (I had the pink GBA dont judge) and lost his sh*t

[OtakuInu!!!]

The first one I remember is either Tomb Raider III: The Adventures of Lara Croft or Syphon Filter both on the PS1.

[debra5]

It was Will Rock

[Takatofan1986]

It's really hard to say. I was born in the late 80s and even before my brother got a NES for Christmas around 88 or 89, we always had Atari's around, and DOS games on the computer, so it's really hard to say what I played first.

[Tasuke]

Pokémon Yellow on a Pikachu-inspired Gameboy.

though it was far from my first VGC, i too had YELLOW and a yellow-colored GB Pocket to play it on, during my POKEMON phase of the late-90'/early-00's...

[kun_Kun]

Totally Spies. A combination of an action game and a computer version of the tabletop game. Ideal for a 5-year child.

[Kagakoko]

Harvest moon ps1